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• Record Q3 at TSMC

  11-10-2019 18:08 via electronicsweekly.com
  TSMC had September revenues of $3.3 billion, down 3.7% on August but up 7.6% y-o-y. Q3 revenues were a record $9.58 billion up 21.6% q-o-q and up 12.6% y-o-y. YTD revenue to the end of September was $24.6 billion – 1.5% up on the same period last year.
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• SiFive adds Risc-V micro-instruction cache for slow memories

  11-10-2019 18:01 via electronicsweekly.com
  SiFive has added a ‘micro instruction cache’ option to its Risc-V e2 core – the smallest of its Risc-V intellectual property offerings. Introduced in release 19.05, the micro instruction cache (see μ$ for cache in diagram) sits between the instruction fetch port and the memory system, and offers a speed-up in execution when operating from ...
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• 1.5GHz and 3GHz real-time spectrum analysers from Rigol

  11-10-2019 16:12 via electronicsweekly.com
  Rigol Technologies has announced 1.5GHz and 3GHz real-time spectrum analysers. Called RSA3000E, according to the company it combines the performance of a swept spectrum analyser with the analysis capability of a real-time analyser. Tracking generators are available, and instruments start at $1,799. “The RSA3000E provides the same seven visualisation modes and triggering capability as Rigol’s ...
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• ‘Artificial photosynthesis’ project enters second phase

  11-10-2019 12:32
  
  The Rheticus II project combines bioreactor and renewables-powered electrolyser to produce industrial chemicals from carbon dioxide
  Evonik and Siemens’ joint Rheticus project has entered its second phase, as the companies combine the bioreactor and electrolyser elements of phase 1 into a test facility, scheduled to begin operations next year, that will use renewable energy and microorganisms to convert carbon dioxide and water into specialty chemicals and fuels. The project is funded by a
  
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• Shape-morphing material ‘closer to artificial nervous tissue’

  11-10-2019 12:14
  
  Researchers have developed a shape-morphing material with ‘neural-like electrical pathways’ that could lead to advances in applications including soft robotics, wearable technologies, and human/machine interfaces.
  Researchers develop a shape-morphing material with multifunctionality for soft robotics and wearable electronics (Image: Soft Machines Lab, Carnegie Mellon University)These technologies need stretchable materials that change shape adaptively while relying on portable electr
  
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• Dyson’s £2bn EV project runs out of road

  11-10-2019 12:14
  
  UK engineering firm Dyson has pulled the plug on the £2bn electric vehicle project it announced back in 2017.
  (Credit: Designmilk via flickr)In a letter to employees, founder and chairman James Dyson said that the company could “no longer see a way to make it commercially viable.” Attempts to sell the Dyson Automotive division, which employs some 523 people, had proved fruitless. The letter went on to say that the company is attempting to find roles within other divisions for t
  
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• MIP sensor seeks antimicrobial resistant bacterial strains

  11-10-2019 12:11
  
  Researchers at Newcastle University are investigating the development of a technique to detect antimicrobial resistant bacterial strains using special polymers designed to bond to bacteria.The technique involves using molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), also known as polymeric antibody-mimics because of their ability to bond to a target molecule.
  They are made from monomers which resemble amino acid structures and interact with bacteria in similar ways to antibodies, said Dr Marloes Peeters o
  
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• Mipi Phy switch from Diodes Incorporated offers switching across five lanes

  11-10-2019 12:07 via electronicsweekly.com
  Diodes Incorporated has announced the PI3WVR648GEAEX five-lane mipi 2:1 switch, capable of switching physical layers that comply with either C-Phy or D-Phy serial interfaces, as defined by the industry standard specification for image sensors and cameras in smartphones and displays in mobile applications. As smartphone and portable device manufacturers integrate to camera modules with higher ...
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• Moving the Moon

  11-10-2019 10:00
  
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  The Moon is often portrayed as a dead world, but it is rich with fictional potential, as Gareth L Powell explains
  Fifty years on from Apollo, most of the discussions around returning to the Moon focus on mining or colonisation. Both could be useful and even profitable enterprises, but are there other, more off-the-wall reasons to visit our celestial companion? Could the Moon help us fight climate change?
  Lots of people have suggested covering the Moon’s surface with solar c
  
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• Microprocessor sales to fall 4% this year.

  11-10-2019 07:30 via electronicsweekly.com
  The microprocessor market’s string of nine straight record-high annual sales between 2010 and 2018 is expected to end this year with worldwide MPU revenue dropping 4% to about $77.3 billion because of weakness in smartphone shipments, excess inventories in data center computers, and the global fallout from the U.S.-China trade war, according to IC Insights. ...
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• Qorvo buys Cavendish Kinetics

  11-10-2019 07:26 via electronicsweekly.com
  Qorvo has bought Cavendish Kinetics – the specialist in RF MEMS technology for antenna tuning applications. The Cavendish Kinetics (CK) team will continue to advance RF MEMS technology for applications across Qorvo’s product lines and transition the technology into high-volume manufacturing for mobile devices and other markets. “The addition of Cavendish Kinetics allows us to build ...
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• Samsung to put $11bn into QD-OLED

  11-10-2019 07:23 via electronicsweekly.com
  Samsung will spend $11 billion on its display business between now and 2025, reports Reuters. $8.4 billion will go into production facilities and $2.6 billion will go into R&D. The money will be focused on converting LCD production lines into lines producing quantum dot (QD) displays. QD-OLED technology enables large, flexible displays which have a ...
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• Synopsys Fusion qualified on GloFo 12nm LP

  11-10-2019 07:14 via electronicsweekly.com
  Globalfoundries has qualified Synopsys’ Fusion Design Platform for its 12nm LP FinFET process. Optimized for the high-performance and low-power requirements of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and mobile system-on-chips (SoCs), the production-ready flow is based on the silicon-proven RTL-to-GDSII 12LP foundry reference flow and incorporates Synopsys Advanced Fusion technologies for best quality-of-results (QoR) and time-to-results ...
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• Imec and MIT integrate single photon emitters in 2D materials

  11-10-2019 07:13 via electronicsweekly.com
  Imec researchers at Ghent University and MIT have integrated single photon emitters in 2D layered materials with a Silicon Nitride photonic chip.  Even for moderate quantum yields, dielectric cavities could be designed such that the single photon extraction into the guided mode can reach unity.  The results provide a crucial step in fundamental quantum photonics ...
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